Over the past two decades, taphonomic and zooarchaeological studies have focused on
Neanderthal settlement patterns and subsistence strategies. The south-eastern margins of …

The middle Rhône valley, located at the southeastern margins of the Massif Central in
France, produced a large number of Middle Palaeolithic sites, most of which dated to the …

This study of Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from the Rhone Valley, in the South-East of
France, increases our understanding of Neanderthal subsistence strategies and modes of …

Long bone breakage for bone marrow recovery is a commonly observed practice in Middle
Palaeolithic contexts, regardless of the climatic conditions. While lithic technology is largely …

Ungulate mortality profiles are commonly used to study Neanderthal subsistence strategies.
To assess the hunting strategies used by Neanderthals, we studied the ages at death of the …

New excavations at the Abri du Maras, located in the southeast of France, have yielded
Middle Palaeolithic assemblages with evidence of rock shelter occupations in a cold climatic …

We evaluated the skeletal profiles from several levels of the Neanderthal site of Abric
Romaní, focusing on the methodology proposed by Faith and Gordon (2007): differences in …

The variability of technical choices in the Rhône Valley (southeast France) is discussed in
relation to the age, environmental conditions, site localisation and site function. New …

This paper focuses on the study of some Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from
Mediterranean Iberia to examine Neanderthal occupation patterns and territory …

We propose for the first time the use of the combination of two high-resolution techniques,
dental wear (meso-and microwear) and dental cementum analyses, to gain a better …